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My Experience at HUL Premier 30 League Tree 2014

My Experience at HUL Premier 30 League Tree 2014

‘One of the best gifts one can get on Diwali’ is what I would term the e-mail I received from Hindustan Unilever Limited, inviting me to be part of the third batch of HUL Premier 30 League Tree as one of the top 30 students from the leading B-schools all over the country. The next two days were spent in a dizzy, packing and booking tickets and then travelling by taxi, flight autorickshaw for a good ten hours to make it from Shillong to Guwahati and finally to Mumbai to the HUL headquarters to attend the prestigious event. We were first given a 2-hour long ‘guided tour’ of the well-known Dharavi slums, by ‘Be the Local’ who call Dharavi ‘The Land of Opportunity’ and work to support local full time students in pursuing higher education as well. They achieve this by simply offering them employment in their company and training them to be tour guides.

PR Cell IIM Shillong
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Is Gamification the new best friend of HR?

Is Gamification the new best friend of HR?

Employee engagement techniques, like intranet information sites and coffee room poster campaigns have become passive these days. Gone are the days when they could hold the concentration of employees to make any impact other than wasting HR budgets. The posters have become just wallpaper.

Debalina Haldar
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Connect at a Personal Level Before Bringing in Your Personal Agenda - Priyanka Gupta at MISB Bocconi Alumni meet

Connect at a Personal Level Before Bringing in Your Personal Agenda - Priyanka Gupta at MISB Bocconi Alumni meet

Last Friday, MISB Bocconi had organized an alumni meet for the students of the Mumbai campus. The attendees included alumni, current students, some exchange students from Italy, and a few administrators from MISB Bocconi. The event was held with a specific purpose – to imbibe in the students' minds the importance of building a global network for local businesses. With this end in mind, MISB Bocconi invited Priyanka Gupta – an executive director at MPIL Industries, a steel structure fabrication company . MPIL Industries is a steel structures fabrication company, a family run business. Priyanka Gupta's achievements at MPIL include establishing the company's second factory at Tarapur, growing the business at a CAGR of 600% between 2008 and 2012, overseeing the growth of the team from 30 to 650 employees. She has been awarded “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” on numerous occasions including most recently in 2013. After being introduced to the audience by Alessandro Giuliani (managing director of MISB Bocconi) in an introductory note, Priyanka Gupta went on to speak about the art of networking, about different techniques, what to do and what not to do if you want to build meaningful relationships with people. She won over her audience with a very straightforward and plain-speaking approach in her talk. Here are some of the salient points of her speech paraphrased in first-person...

SDA Bocconi Asia Center
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Trotting the Temporary Staff Model- Bringing a Transformation in the HR Industry

Trotting the Temporary Staff Model- Bringing a Transformation in the HR Industry

HR is no longer limited to the staff function. In recent times HR has seen some unprecedented changes in its modus operandi. If we exhume its history we can find its roots deep down in industrial and labour relations. Grown at a snail’s pace during the second half of twentieth century, the span of control of HR was limited to support function and to a staff function in more formal sectors. With the onset of LPG (liberalization, privatization and globalization), organizations started recognizing the increasing need of HR to manage its young and diverse workforce. Contemporary HR is considered to be a strategic business partner. It has got the prerogative to voice its concern in board room meetings. Transformation in HR continues, and in yet another leap, it has given rise to an altogether new set of industry, ‘HR Consulting & Solution Industry’.

IIM Ranchi
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